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Freedom in Multimedia

Multimedia in general and audio in particular were areas dominated almost
exclusively by proprietary software. Within the "A GNU/Linux Audio
distribution" (AGNULA) project, a group of European universities, companies and
organisations — among them the Free Software Foundation Europe
(FSFE) — set out to change this in 2001.

Using AGNULA

If you are a user

If you are a vendor

Anyone is welcome to provide distributions, products or services based upon
and under the designation AGNULA, provided you comply with the rules of the AGNULA trademark license.

Background

This section contains some of the background and historical information
about AGNULA.

Information Society Technologies

AGNULA managed to be accepted as European Commission project IST-2001-34879
and was funded from April 1st, 2002 until March 31st, 2004. The project was
coordinated by Nicola Bernardini from Centro Tempo Reale, Florence, Italy.

FSFE Contributions

One seminal role of the FSFE inside the AGNULA EU project was to take care
of the legal issues, decide upon acceptable licensing policies and care about
legal maintainability. Other tasks were making sure that Free Software
community interests are heard, helping that information is provided in the best
possible way and work on the dissemination of the final results: